Imagining Muslims/Imagining Others: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe
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Ann Grodzins, Dan Gold, Davydd Greenwood, Andrew Willford
September 14-15, 2007
Organized to coincide with the second visit of Cornell’s A. D. White Professor-at-Large visit of by Professor Bassam Tibi of the University of Göttingen in September, 2007, we are combining a panel of keynote presentations and a workshop on “Imagining Muslims/Imagining Others: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe” aimed at producing a mapping of the issues and some possible research agendas for the future.
This gathering of scholars blends perspectives from different world areas around three elements: positive images (good others), negative images (bad others) and historical context/causes (historical others).
We seek to explore the way these cultural imaginaries work and to instantiate them in different area contexts. We explicitly wish to avoid narrowing the focus to simple areal comparisons because we are more interested in the translatability of discourses across regional and cultural divides and are wondering about possibly emergent global forms and imaginaries. We will seek to map the issues that have emerged and to develop notions about research projects and possible collaborations for the future.
This event is jointly sponsored at Cornell by the A.D. White Professor-at-Large Program of Cornell, the Institute for European Studies, the Institute for German Cultural Studies, the Southeast Asia Program, the South Asia Program, and the Department of Anthropology; sponsored regionally by the Cultures and Religions Initiative of the Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor; and funded in part with Federal money.
The workshop attached to this event is by invitation only. Interested persons should contact Davydd J. Greenwood, Director of the Institute for European Studies at djg6@cornell.edu.